4. Do you not know that it has been from old, since mankind was put on earth,
5. that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
6. Though his pride reaches to the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7. he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8. Like a dream, he flies away and they cannot find him; like a vision of the night, he is chased away.
9. The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
10. His children must recompense the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
11. His bones were full of his youthful vigor but it will lie down with him in the dust.
12. Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
13. though he cannot bear to let it go and holds it in his mouth,